Another #davidseymour failure back in the news. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

OH DO FUCK OFF YOU DISINGENUOUS TWATS You do everything to break the EV & Solar change & then months out from an election pull this stunt.

open.substack.com/pub/the307/p... Glyphosate concentrations 10,000 times higher than regular round-up sprayed soil. Add this to the list of heinous war crimes. #lebanon #israel #palestine

Nice summary here from alex falcone. It's especially galling that the guy who did indeed help crack the car market open for EVs and put starlink in space is just a scam artist now. On the biggest scale ever. #elonmusk

youtu.be/SUkLIAf3owo On RNZ yesterday Bernard Hickey was described as "left wing" because he "criticises everything the current govt is doing" ... that's not left-wing, that's just accurately describing the govt as unhinged, ignoring experts, taking us in the wrong direction. #nzpol

This is what i mean about #nzlabour. @chrishipkins.bsky.social "continuity" messaging is appeasement. It's bad strategy. It doesn't work. Be a real opposition. #nzpol

Excellent news! A huge 180 from National on renwables and sustainability. A welcome distraction also from the hiuge corruption scandal around this govt being lobbied and legislating under urgency to protect polluting corporations including fossil fuels. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/educati...

This is one of many MANY examples why @chrishipkins.bsky.social "continuity" message is very much the wrong message. National is bad for business. Labour's track record on business is much better. Campaign on that. #nzpol

There's a scene in Andor where (spoiler) Krennic tells Dedra that she is either a rebel spy or indistinguishable from one. I feel the same way about Hipkins. He's either a right wing plant with the objective of preventing politics from moving to the left, or he's indistinguishable from one.

If people want "continuity" of the current government as Chippy says here, they will vote for the current government. This message is far too wishy-washy. Labour needs to stand for their core values and state them strongly, not this fence-sitting don't-rock-the-boat timidness #nzpol

www.youtube.com/live/AEIwpir... @barbedmonds.bsky.social is a real one. What she talks about is so much closer to home than NZLabour's leader. So is Tania Waikato. Both are advocating for the rest of us. Mana Wahine. This is an awesome conversation/interview/korero. #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Can we get big money out of politics please. It's anti-democratic. #nzpol #politics

Does everyone who hates big rates rises know that the cancellation of 3 waters is the main reason for big rates rises? 3 waters would have eased the main burden on local councils: aging water/wastewater/stormwater infrastructure. Remind those complaining about rates how their vote can help #nzpol

#luxon #nzpol

Nothing to see just the Prime Minister & Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand threatening NZ journalists within 24 hrs of each other. We are $1 shop America

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... wouldn't it be great if headlines gave the necessary facts. DISGRACED former Labour minister Nash joins DISGRACED former Labour minister Jones in New Zealand First. It's where disgraced politicians go. #nzpol

nzdsn.org.nz/disability-s... absolutely disgusting. Yet unsurprising for a government that has shown time and again they don't give a shit about people. #nzpol

National is passing INSANE legislation. Really awful and mean-spirited. This is only one example. Am I the only one who thinks Labour's muted or total lack of pushback amounts to sanewashing? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... - increasing unemployment - more thousands of small to medium businesses going broke - public services benefit the most vulnerable people, disability services already literally leaving people out in the cold thanks to this govt - crashing the economy even more #nzpol

I think it was COVID when the stock market became fully detached from the economy. Why? Massive transfer of wealth to the rich. Of course they throw that into the stock market. Starting a big company is no longer about profits, it's about growing rapidly, IPO, run the company off the share value

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.

youtu.be/853pDQ21DGs a very young person in #gaza interviews some other Gazans and gives us a glimpse of what it's really like there. I challenge anyone to still support Israel after looking at these very human faces, see their homes, schools, hospitals, libraries now rubble and rats

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Wuen asked whether Fees Free was a good policy, @chrishipkins.bsky.social said he "wouldn't design it the same way now". The answer is YES, it helped thousands into education. Push back on N/Act's outright lie that it was a "failure". There's always room for improvement but it succeeded. #nzpol

Tania Waikato. One of the examples of very impressive talent now on the Green Party lineup.

BREAKING: Sir David Attenborough is doing fine, happy 100th birthday buddy.

If importing US butter adding tons of pollution into the world is cheaper than local NZ butter, the system is BROKEN. #nzpol

#luxon #onetermgovt #nzpol Pic courtesy of cybogloblin

I keep hearing this argument that a good CEO doesn't make a good PM. Trouble is they are referring to Luxon. He was a bad CEO. The same troubles with AirNZ as with NZ under his tenure: bad morale, lack of care for workers, ignoring experts, increasing debt. Bad CEO, bad PM. #nzpol

....i'm dead #nzpol

This is blatant fuckery. Just grifting off all of us. We need to kick the petroleum habit. Go solar. Go wind. Yesterday.

National Party sucks. Has for a long time. What i mean by that is they are incompetent: lower growth, lower GDP, higher government debt, unemployment, and credit downgrades whenever they are in power. The current govt is just speedrunning what National has done for nigh on half a century #nzpol

Rapid response mock outrage smear machine #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/teatatin...

Absolute banger of a video... As every one of Barry's videos are. Digging into the psychology of economics and why everything is so f*kd rn... It doesn't entirely translate outside the UK but the overall idea does youtu.be/Nm_L9VCBJ_E #garyseconomics #barryseconomics

open.substack.com/pub/the307/p... "Free speech absolutist" xitter, huh

OpenAI's former Safety Lead just confirmed what our research has shown: AI companies can deploy safeguards to prevent harm in a matter of hours. They're choosing not to. AI-assisted violence isn't inevitable. It's a decision.👇

So #ai hallucinates, makes stuff up when it doesn't know the answer, it's getting worse, and the only fix they have would ruin the product. So many ways in which this "ai boom" is a scam...

The underutilisation rate is higher than it was IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC. And it's rising. 409,000 people in NZ are either unemployed or under-employed (in casual or part-time work). Are we "fixing the basics"? #onetermgovt #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... So NATIONAL has been forcing their politics into our classrooms. #nzpol

I'm on Bluesky! Apparently it is not always terrible here! But what the government is up to is terrible so I made a round up of all the upcoming bills you can submit on #nzpol #kikorangi www.emilywrites.co.nz/ok/

We all know Winston Peters is in it for himself. Regardless, sometimes, even now, he is sometimes perceptive enough to be correct (and it suits him to say so). This deal is good for India, not for NZ. @chrishipkins.bsky.social supporting this is a bad mistake for NZ.

Seymour in the news saying he'll never stop fighting for democracy and equality, when he literally wrote a book saying be hates both #nzpol

Seymour is so full of shit, he talks about how he's fighting for democracy and equality when he loathes both, he wrote a book with a chapter called: "Democracy, too much of a good thing?" And quoted OWH saying "I have no respect for the passion for equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy"

youtu.be/ZxRB5qWphJE sums up my feelings on the under-16 social media ban in Aus. Mind the strong language. Too f***ing right. #nzpol #auspol

Labour stans would prefer we be silent and stop pressuring Labour to listen to our demands and just be happy with Hipkins and their policies, but if we don't get them to listen to us then Atlas will get Labour to listen to them. #nzpol

Their excuse: taking action to reduce emissions will "destroy the economy". The truth is completely the opposite, it will be GOOD for the economy, many experts have said this. More opposition parties need to be saying this too. #nzpol

Oh so that's all they're worried about

Funny how they said they wanted to get central govt out of local govt, then once in power they turn around and do a local govt takeover. #bish #nzpol ...funny tho, i thought at first this was about the bish trying to roll luxon, lol #coc

@chrishipkins.bsky.social please tell us this isn't you, and that you'll meet the moment of unprecedented combo of inequality, public service degradation, housing and cost of living crisis. Speeches at the AGM painted the below picture